The grateful elephant, Opening, part 4, sentence 88
For the snake and the parrot to eat, he caused every day sweet parched grain to be given in a vessel of gold purified with fire; for the rat, grains of perfumed rice; he gave alms and performed the other works of merit.
Who acts: parrot, day sweet, merit · What happens: eat, cause, parch, give, purify, perfume · To what, where: grain, vessel, gold, alms, other works
This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (parrot, day sweet, merit), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 snake | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 snake | det |
| 3 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 caused | obl |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 parrot | cc |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 parrot | det |
| 6 | parrot | parrot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 snake | conj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 eat | mark |
| 8 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 parrot | acl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 snake | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 caused | nsubj |
| 11 | caused | cause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 sweet | det |
| 13 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sweet | compound |
| 14 | sweet | sweet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 parched | nsubj |
| 15 | parched | parch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 caused | conj |
| 16 | grain | grain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 parched | obj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 given | mark |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 given | aux:pass |
| 19 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 grain | acl |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 vessel | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 vessel | det |
| 22 | vessel | vessel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 given | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 gold | case |
| 24 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 vessel | nmod |
| 25 | purified | purify | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 gold | acl |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 fire | case |
| 27 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 purified | obl |
| 28 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 rat | punct |
| 29 | for | for | ADP | _ | 31 rat | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 rat | det |
| 31 | rat | rat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 parched | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 grains | punct |
| 33 | grains | grain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 rat | nmod |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 rice | case |
| 35 | perfumed | perfume | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 36 rice | amod |
| 36 | rice | rice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 grains | nmod |
| 37 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 39 gave | punct |
| 38 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 gave | nsubj |
| 39 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 caused | conj |
| 40 | alms | alm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 gave | obj |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 performed | cc |
| 42 | performed | perform | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 gave | conj |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 works | det |
| 44 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 works | amod |
| 45 | works | work | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 performed | obj |
| 46 | of | of | ADP | _ | 47 merit | case |
| 47 | merit | merit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 works | nmod |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 caused | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | to-infinitive | parrot not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | cause | past | parrot | for the snake and the parrot | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition | ||||
| 3 | parch | past | every day sweet | grain | for the rat grains of perfumed rice | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent grain=Patient | |||
| 4 | give | to-infinitive · passive | every day sweet not said here | grain not said here | a vessel of gold | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V» | |||
| 5 | purify | participle | gold not said here | with fire | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with fire=Instrument | ||||
| 6 | perfume | participle | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 7 | give | past | parrot | alms | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent alm=Theme | ||||
| 8 | perform | past | parrot not said here | the other works of merit | vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Theme | ||||
| 9 | work | merit | nom work «act intransitive»: of=agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Project Gutenberg book 74064 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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